A fully soft generator with embedded conditioning circuitry

• Main Authors: Wang, Yongquan, Zhu, Liangquan, Zhang, Gong, Chen, Hualing
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Smart Materials; Electronic Devices
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89766; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46361
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This letter presents a fully soft dielectric elastomer generator (DEG) based on a capacitive kinetic-energy-harvesting mechanism. First, using the principle of a passive charge pump, a self-cycling conditioning circuit topology is proposed. Through the electrical reciprocity of a cyclically deformin...